Quotes About Misconceptions

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.

When Western filmmakers look for an Indian they want him to play a snake charmer, a chauffeur or a peanut vendor.

Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

In the same way that so many people read 'Harry Potter' and went to see 'Harry Potter,' just because a movie is about a kid, doesn't mean it's for kids, and just because a movie is about a girl, doesn't mean it's for girls.

So many people who criticize Fox News don't watch Fox News.

A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his dog and his pigeons.

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Just consider what you believe about yourself and what your Mother believes about you. She can say she knows you very well, but she has no idea who you really are. You know that she doesn't. You can believe that you know your Mother very well, but you don't have any idea who she really is. She has all those fantasies in her mind that she never shared with anyone else. You have no idea what is inside her mind.

Y pensar que hay gente tan ignorante que piensa que un loco no tiene argumentos!

Obviously I'm doing something wrong," Russell said dryly. "I thought vacations involved white sand beaches and cerulean skies, not concussions and working over the weekend.

Its important to understand that a legalist isn't just someone with higher standards or more rules than you. A lot of us wrongly stereotype a legalistic person as one who doesn't go to the movies, or who thinks that any music with a beat is evil. Legalism is much more subtle and serious than that. Here's a simple definition that I use: Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through obedience to God.

Everyone assumed that if you were beautiful, things just fell in your lap?

The idea, so current in our time, that Southern California is peopled by idlers, oldsters, playboys, and crackpots.

New Yorkers," said Jim Tile, "think they've cornered the market on psychopaths. They don't know Florida.

A survey shows that more college graduates are homosexual than those with lesser education; therefore education makes people gay.

On handing the book back to my friend, the woman inquired Is he gay? No, said my friend. The woman pondered for a moment. Is he English? she asked.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft are written by men.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.